Talking New Politics - Are Other Worlds Possible?

Talking New Politics - Are Other Worlds Possible?

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Author: Jai Sen
Mayuri Saini/
Editor(s): Jai Sen/Mayuri Saini
Publisher: Kali/Zubaan
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 232
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8189013270

Description

In the run-up to the fourth World Social Forum held in Mumbai, India in January 2004, civil activists and students organized a major series of seminars in Delhi University to discuss the forum and its politics. The Open Space seminar series, as it came to be called, picked up on the idea of the Forum as a relatively free space, where all kinds of ideas could meet and be discussed.

Can the world social forum help us to conceptualize and actualize a new politics? Can this new politics be free from violence? Can the experience and knowledge of great movements such as the movement for the environment, and the women’s movement, contribute to the creation of a new politics? How can such a politics be sustained?

The essays in this book, written in an easy and accessible style, are informed by these questions. They offer the reader different and complex ways of understanding the process that have helped to shape the world social forum and the new politics that seems to be emerging, and what all this represents, for life, society, and politics more generally.

Contents

SERIES INTRODUCTION
Interrogating the Forum, Jai Sen
A Salute, Mukul Mangalik

OPEN SPACE I: ENVISIONING THE WORLD

CHAPTER I
Breaking Boundaries

CHAPTER II
Alternative Frames

CHAPTER III
Redefining the World

Open Forum

OPEN SPACE 2: OLD POLITCS, NEW POLITICS

CHAPTER IV
New Energies, New Imagination

CHAPTER V
Form and Content

CHAPTER VI
The Politics of Engagement

CHAPTER VII
Feminist Interventions

OPEN SPACE 3: BOUNDARIES OF VIOLENCE

CHAPTER VIII
A Hierarchy of Violence

CHAPTER IX
Understanding Violence

CHAPTER X
Resistance, Defence or Violence?

CHAPTER XI
A Thousand Voices

CHAPTER XII
Revenge and Collective Guilt

Open Forum

OPEN SPACE 4: RHYTHMS OF OTHER WORLDS

CHAPTER XIII
Forum as Raga

CHAPTER XIV
The Importance of Small Things

CHAPTER XV
Elements of New Movement

OPEN FORUM

Searching For New Policy
Open Space seminar Series Programme
WSF Backgrounder
WSF Charter of Principles
Glossary
Photocredits
Acknowledgements
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